Music and Songwriting/Bryan Wang

Bad mood days are a serious problem. Making some of the self-management projects about this would be useful.

= General Notes = Treating assignments for all projects on an ongoing basis, managing the work time.

Only assign work that Principles - doing work that provides value and pertains directly to personal goals
 * 1) Provides value to other humans
 * 2) Is integrated into a prioritized, clearly defined end goal
 * 3) Has a clear feedback mechanism
 * 4) The subject understands and accepts the conditions of

Each section has
 * Notes on past work
 * Short, long and mid-term goals
 * Current Assignments

= Mixing/Songwriting =

Goals
Long-Term: Mid-term Short-term:
 * 1) Develop professional level mixing and songwriting skills - get the twin to head bob
 * 2) Pass the JMS Hand test
 * 3) Destroy Berklee - Berklee is destroyed
 * 1) Aim to perfect one song per month on "Asterisk Demos" album
 * 2) Complete a digital mixing course and apply concepts to new songs
 * 3) Recruit another person to the Man/Machine Wiki
 * 4) Write a song that does something
 * 5) Invent the DAWbstacle course
 * Buy Logic

Goals
LT - Develop largely stable, positive mood state, Develop the belief that you are the one making decisions about one's direction in life and you have the ability to self-direct if necessary

MT - Test the idea that building small habits can measurably improve mood in the long term.

ST - Keep pushing time log numbers, examine mood-stabilizing habits

Goals
LT - enter the pantheon of earnestness

The idea is based on an interview with Ed Sheeran where he said he tried to double James Morrison's yearly show count as a threshold for what he needed to do to 'break through.' If we were to follow the same equation based on what Ed had done, we would conclude one needs to aim to play 600 'shows' a year. Now Ed Sheeran counted open mics and smaller events that he did, but if you ratchet up the stakes in all categories, we could look at professional shows Ed has done where he plays 90 minutes, 12-15 songs. One other factor that gets no consideration in the original interview is the impact of each show. The hypothesis we are working with is that if one can...

perform 600 shows of at least 90 minutes with an emphasis on audiences that we can get the most profound interactions with.

ST - Conflate Jon and Bryan's records, get in a google doc and post here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17HdwR_13etPDYpIrHXVtqdpXFw2C4wLF3FR55-UXfsQ/edit#gid=0

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2098216/Ed-Sheeran-Heres-ginger-kid-raps-guitar-Thats-good-start.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyg_41QF1w

= Elevator Etudes =

Goals
Long-Term - Develop a system of thought that unifies performance, composition and technique practice to increase the overall benefit of each one.

Mid-Term - Work through the triad-chord scale series for diatonic scales and apply it to compose hooks and improvisations that support the Ed Equation and the Swift Delivery projects

Short-Term - learn the 1st inversion 1-2-3 chord scale for G major and apply it in busking.

Questions:
How to write a good hook reliably at improvisational speed for any style you are working in?

How many kinds of hooks are there? What’s a sensible way to classify hooks?

How can you differentiate writing from inspiration and writing through a process? How do the techniques of those approaches differ? Can/should one blend the two?

Goal;
Be able to reliably produce successful song hooks

Hook Theory
Summary:

There are a lot of different kinds of hooks

Understanding the objective and subjective parameters of a hook not totally clear

need a method to reliably and rapidly produce hooks

question

Define the hook – the lyrical line or melodic phrase that catches the ear of the listener

song that’s all hook?

Pre-improvisational process for developing hooks?

secondary hook

rhythm hook, fill hook

you can call me al

hooks express themselves many ways

displcament hook?

Soak myself in hooks

the sound of it

The tempos of the catchiest hooks

repitition – tempo

Audience tendencies and tone color?

What is it that makes inspiration

comping hook

who is researching hooks?

Given the geometry of the attention, how

= Customer Development = (The Ed Equation, JMS Channel Reach, Digital Channel?)

Films

Ask YouTube listeners for Bryan

= Social Skills = I argue that specifically cultivating social skills will increase your social connectivity.

Philosophical reading, diving in shallow

= Meditation = There are known benefits to spiritual practices, and they can be studied from many perspectives but there is significant consensus that spiritual practices improve well-being.

= The American Dream = This would be an attempt to quantify and gamify the career development process.

Gains earned x marginal happiness

= Unfiled Notes =

Short-Term Projects
I'd like to issue a challenge

QNA, Lessons editing.

Prudence's idea of having kids when you give up your own dreams

Measuring happy conversations

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